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The Old Courthouse in St. Louis will receive federal stimulus funds for a new copper roof. The $3.9 million project will replace the copper installed in 1941, which has oxidized to green, but will not replace the dome. "With full sunshine, it will be quite a sight," said Frank Mares, deputy superintendent of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.

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In 2010, the leaky roof of the Old Courthouse in St. Louis was replaced with a $3.9 million copper roof. Once that was done, crews worked to repair or replace more than 500 cornice stones along the edge of the roof. That labor-intensive project took nearly two years, but now it's done and the scaffold is coming down.

Workers are replacing the 33,000-square-foot roof atop the First Baptist Church in Clayton, N.C., with a copper dome. Members have already raised the $550,000 needed to replace the old roof. The copper work was all done by hand and could last 100 years, according to Dave Whitaker, the project manager.

A 40-foot crane collapsed onto power lines and a house in Sarasota, Fla., knocking out electricity in a neighborhood but injuring no one. About 1,400 homes lost power temporarily. The driver of the crane ran over a water main, which burst and softened the ground -- potentially causing the collapse.

Abu Dhabi is pulling together the cash and engineering know-how it needs to build its proposed "green city," a utopia of zero-carbon, zero-waste buildings. Known as the Masdar Initiative, the "city," something more like an industrial park, will be built in stages for an estimated $22 billion.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., said Monday that the Senate could still address climate legislation before immigration reform. Lieberman said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told him Sunday that the Senate would tackle whichever measure is ready first. Meanwhile, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said that addressing immigration reform this year is "nothing but a political stunt."